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...gags. They helped Kennedy steal the show from the five Democratic hopefuls on the dais. Kennedy poked fun at Rollings' heavy Southern accent ("the only non-English-speaking candidate ever to run for President"). And he flicked a good jab at the easiest mark in town, urging that Interior Secretary James Watt be thrown to the wolves "while there are still some wolves left...
...million worth of buildings and a scanty 4,600 acres of land worth $4.8 million. Even worse, it has proved a disaster politically, antagonizing conservationists and even some of the Administration's staunchest supporters. In a move to cut the plan's political cost, Department of the Interior Secretary James Watt said last week that land under Interior's control will no longer be sold as part of an asset-management program...
...asset-management plan has been heavily criticized in the Western states, where many of the federal holdings are situated and where Ronald Reagan enjoys his greatest grass-roots strength. Under the asset-management process, the Administration had put up FOR SALE signs on 2.5 million acres ruled by Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Though none of the acreage is national park land, a number of tracts were used extensively by vacationers, hunters, fishermen, timber and mineral companies and cattle ranchers. "The program scared everybody into thinking vast amounts of the public domain were going to be sold," says...
Some conservationists remain suspicious of the Administration's assets policy, and Interior Spokesman Harmon Kallman acknowledges that the new plan "does not mean that we're not going to sell any land. All we are saying is that we are out from under any dollar goals set by the asset-management program." Or as one Interior official bluntly put it, "This way we can assure everyone we're not under the policy thumb of some green kids. Our program will just piddle along in low gear...
...left the bullet train, on which we got to know each other, at Niigata and had taken a limited southwest down along the blue Sea of Japan. At the coastal city of Itoigawa we caught a primitive local that followed the Fossa Magna, that grand cleft dividing interior Japan, up into the Hida range. The train chugged upcountry, passing through hot-spring villages where station names were no longer in Roman letters, passing the jade mines at Kotaki. The railroad paralleled the Himekawa, a river that seemed to flow granite, so stony and gray...